A review by holly_ed_
Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin

3.0

I love the idea of Lucia Berlin almost more than her stories: she was married 3 times and had her kids all before the age of 30 and was a cleaner, a professor and lots more besides. Her stories are unsettling, macabre, detached yet incredibly intense. I enjoyed some of the stories in this collection hugely, though not all of them - some dragged and lacked to punch of, for example Dust to Dust, in which the narrator's friend is killed in an accident and it's the most exciting thing to have happened to either of them.